Indian food tonight...completely vegetarian, although not on purpose. Aloo samosas, with a flour/besan/shortening crust, stuffed with a spicy coconut/potato/onion/red pepper/jalapeno stuffing, deep fried, with a thick dal soup with lots of pureed vegetables (actually a large amount of roasted hatch chilies pureed into it, as well as roasted eggplant and squash), and basmati rice cooked in spice-laced ghee. The dal was HOT. Perhaps too liberal a hand with the hatch chilies! But good.

Yet another reason...laziness combined with a head cold. Samosas are terrifically labor intensive, so I really didnt feel like thawing out some chicken, making up the besan batter...I thoroughly intended to have chicken pakoras AND naan in addition to the above. Ah well, at least I know on which subcontinent I could theoretically survive should I be forbidden meat in the future. Nothing is more soul-crushing than bland vegetarian food. No wait, I can think of something worse...soy-derived industrial "meat substitute" types of vegetarian food.